My Photo Wall and Notice Board - Home Sweet Home - Violet LeBeaux

One of the things I wanted to make in the Home Sweet Home project was a notice board. I made one when we lived in Brisbane but it was too big to bring with us so I have been making do since moving here.

We have a massive glass door which leads to our bedroom so I figured that was the perfect place to put one! This is the result:

Now it’s up, I really like it but I’m debating whether I would rather just cover the glass with some nice paper and put the board and polaroids/business cards somewhere else. That’s for another day though so today I’ll just show how I made all of this!

You need:

Cardboard
Foam/corkboard/something to stick pins into (I’m using the rest of that old yoga mat)
Fabric to cover it all
Decorations: popsicle sticks, paint, lace etc
Hot glue

I was reusing old supplies for most of this.

Cover the cardboard in foam and hot glue it down. I used that same old yoga mat and because there wasn’t much left I made a bit of a patchwork XD

Next cover it all with fabric. Again I was using scraps so I did it in two sections.

Tadaa 😀

The finish was a bit rough so I glued thick elastic around the edges and middle. This made it look more like a window. You could easily use ribbon or something else similar.

So far:

Now I wanted to make a little white picket fence to go around it too so I used popsicle sticks.

I snipped off one of the ends…

Painted them all white…

And left them to dry while I did the next part.

I decided to hold this on to the glass using some double sided tape.

Here it is on the wall:

Then I added the popsicle sticks in a picket fence design over the top. It turned out that having the sticks over the top of the board made it too thick to slide back into the wall. Boo! I ended up removing that section and leaving the rest.